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Friday, May 13, 2016

Reminder: #TBRChallenge for May 2016

For those of you participating in the 2016 TBR Challenge, this is a reminder that your commentary is "due" on Wednesday, May 18. This month's theme is Something Different! This is one of my annoyingexciting open-to-interpretation themes. Whatever "different" means to you. A sub genre you don't normally read? A different genre besides romance? A historical set during an "unusual" time period? A trope you don't naturally gravitate towards? The sky's the limit!

But what if you don't want to read different? "You'll pry this comfort read out of my cold dead hands Wendy!!!!" Hey, no problem! Remember - the themes are totally optional and are not required. It's not about the themes but reading something (anything!) out of your TBR.

I picked this up because I saw it mentioned in a Harlequin blog post (about cowboys!) recently and I'm nothing if not shallow. What I didn't realize is that it's book 2 in a continuity series (the other two books having been written by o...

This was kind of a mixed bag 3.5 Star kind of read - but I positively inhaled it, so I'm rounding it up to 4 Stars. The heroine is young, makes some seriously bone-headed decisions, but the author writes the heck out of this story and I ...

I should have DNF'ed this because it never succeeded in grabbing me. My reading experience here was largely indifferent, I suspect because the plot was a bit too loosey-goosey for too long. There's the long-lost son (hero) with an evil m...

My reread/revisiting of the McCone series marches on with this book that I vaguely remembered "really liking" back in the day. I still kind of liked it, but it didn't hold up as well for me as Trophies and Dead Things. I suspect because ...

#11 in the Sharon McCone series works best as a mystery if you're completely ignorant of later books in the series. The misdirection involving a secondary character would just play better. I liked this one, but wasn't in love with it. Th...